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Life Quotes by Anne Carson
- As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it…
- I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like,…
- I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and…
- There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones…
- All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence…
- Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle